Acoustic soft rock covers with Kaptain Krunch (Pars Evrenos), one of
the top guitarists in the South East, playing his fabulous guitar for
harmonising sisters Avril Appleyard & Rosie Scott.

The set is a melodic, easy listening mix of beautiful guitar and
close harmonies, including soft rock covers by artists such as Extreme, Heart,
Kansas, Queen, Bon Jovi, Nickelback, Bad Company, Guns 'n Roses, The Eagles,
The Rolling Stones, Skunk Anansie, and many more.

If you like your rock stripped back raw, then this line up is for
you!!

If you knew me you’d realise
that most of that’s not going to rock my boat - but since I got ill I’ve tried
to be a little less dogmatic and a bit more open minded.

OK, that part probably hasn’t
come on too well yet.

The contrast with last night
couldn’t be sharper, this is Pars Evrenos:

So I was in another land, with only a coke to keep me company.And this is the band:

Despite appearances it
was good fun. The Kaptain is a well-known local guitarist; he normally plays
heavy metal thrash and looks the part, which isn’t my kind of thing at all. And
while he did play electric guitar part of the time, he was kept well in order
by the two sisters on vocals. It was all basically pared down acoustic versions
of rock standards. As far as I could see they were chosen purely on the grounds
that they liked them.

Excellent harmonies with fine
guitar work forcing me to listen to things I wouldn’t want to listen
to normally. As I said – lots of fun.

Billed as a trio, there were
a series of fourth guitarists who came and went.

‘Dave’ did a very fine
acoustic accompaniment on ‘Ziggy Stardust’ when he eventually found
his guitar, ‘Nick’ who did a couple of very fine Blues numbers on electric
guitar and was introduced as Deep Purple’s former road manager. Oh, and there
was another guitarist whose name I didn’t catch. They were all excellent. And
no sign of any laptops and dubbed tracks. The only percussion was a real live tambourine.

I enjoyed the Rolling Stones
numbers; ‘Angie’ and ‘Paint it Black’. There were songs by The Pretenders, The
Mammas and Pappas, as well as stuff from all or most of the list above. They finished with
a medley of Beatles songs from Sgt Pepper and that has got to be the worst Beatles
Album of all time. I even enjoyed that too.

If I had to work out why I
liked it I’d say that the ever changing line-up, the bizarre mixture of songs
and the fine music and harmonies all played out in a tiny, old Pub added up to a good
old fashioned Ceilidh. A good way to put a bad week to rest.